In Love with a Billionaire Trilogy

Book 1 Description:

Aboard his 53 foot cruising yacht, The MasonWade, Dr. Shelby Conrad III was in his element. He loved his time on the Ashley River as it flowed into the Cooper and eventually the Atlantic Ocean. The smell of pluff mud and the salt marshes were transformative. It was reminiscent of his boyhood when he roamed the shores with his grandfather. He called him Papa Shell. It was a wild mysterious shoreline at the time. The live oaks flirting with the water・s edge and pelicans, herons and sea terns flying overhead. His Papa said it would be his one day and it was.

Sea Islands with multi-million dollar mansions, pristine beaches and excellent golf courses dotted the area he called home. Papa Shell was not one to put all of his eggs in one basket so he encouraged his grandson to have a backup plan. Shelby went to college in Boston followed by medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. He was Dr. Shelby Conrad III at the Conrad Cardiac Care Unit at Sacred Legion Hospital in Charleston.

Shelby was certainly the wealthiest man in the state, worth over three billion USD. He was able to keep a low profile. He was a quiet benefactor, real estate baron and a brilliant surgeon who had a gentleman・s agreement with the media who left him alone.

Book 2 Description:

Dr. Shelby Conrad III was stoking his internal fire. He was alone in his small skiff on the Blackwater Edisto River. He was navigating the uninhabited swampland. He could go hours without seeing another boat. If he did encounter another watercraft, they were there for similar reasons and a gentle nod was a zealous exchange.

Shelby was 44 years old. He owned two other fishing boats and a yacht, which contained dinghies larger than what he was navigating. The past three years had been challenging. Time in the swampland with the herons, egrets and alligators helped assess his recent triumphs and tragedies.

He met a great woman in Lexi Casmino. Their romance was magical. It helped Shelby get himself on firm ground. She was more impressed by his moves in the kitchen and on the barbecue than the size of his billfold. She had an ill daughter and he provided healing to both young Mae and her widowed mother. 

Book 3 Description:

Shelby labeled his life phases by the women he romanced. There was the drawn-out Maxine phase. It resulted in two sons and Maxine・s time was shared by others. The Lexi period was pure and wholesome. The Dessie chapter was an apocalyptic disaster. He harbored a crush on Cay but it had not qualified as a romance. There were many other women as Janae, Harmony, and the list continues.

Skip had only one defining relationship. John was his husband of one year and partner of 24 years. He loved the unspoken secrets he shared with John. He knew every curve of his body. Skip never came out to Shelby as gay. He was always his gay brother Skip. It was a matter of fact. Mason and Wade grew up knowing Uncle Skip and Uncle John.

Losing his brother was traumatic. Shelby had not taken the time to notice Skip・s declining health in recent years. Being a physician, he knew what was happening physiologically. He did not give sufficient thought to the man. Skip lived with grace. A piece of Shelby died with his brother.